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In the days following November’s midterm elections, left-wing Democrats were competing with right-wing Republicans to see who could write the most damning obit on Obama’s presidency. And who can blame them? After all, the consensus opinion across party lines was that the shellacking the Democrats took was in fact a referendum on his presidency. And… Read more.
I am still on sick leave, but I’m getting sicker watching far-left Democrats Carterize President Obama over the compromise he struck with Republicans yesterday to, effectively, extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich in exchange for extending unemployment benefits for the poor. In fact, this has incited such mutinous rage among these folks that they seem… Read more.
The media are focusing a considerable amount of attention on the atmospherics of President Obama’s state visit to India. They are making much ado, for example, of the fact that the shellacking he took at home in midterm elections last Tuesday meant that Obama arrived in India a few days ago with his tail between… Read more.
The media did quite a Barnum & Bailey job of drumming up suspense, but President Obama’s address tonight on his new military strategy “to bring this war [in Afghanistan] to a successful conclusion” was wholly anticlimactic. Not to mention the pedantry he displayed in restating all of the (now Bushy) reasons why this is a just war, which only served… Read more.
The way Saturday Night Live (SNL) parodied President Obama’s failure to follow through on campaign promises demonstrates why liberals have already become so disillusioned with his presidency. For here, in part, is how his hopeful presidential checklist was lampooned on Saturday night by the show’s Barack Obama impersonator (who, incidentally, looks more like Pee Wee… Read more.
As great a celebrity as President Obama has become, I really did not expect coverage of his Moscow summit to compete with the obsessive, predatory and wholly redundant coverage of (plans for) today’s Michael Jackson Memorial. But nothing demonstrates the tabloidization of the news media quite like the fact that even coverage of Sarah… Read more.
